Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

The public are being urged to choose between two quotes from three former makars – with the most popular to be carved into ...

Spring rain arrives, bringing life to all things. Rain Water, the second term of the 24 Solar Terms, is nature's gentle gift to us. As fine threads of drizzle nourish the earth, all rouses from the ...

The origins of the phrase date all the way back to 1400, when the Medieval poem “Roman de la rose” (“Romance of the Rose”) used the phrase “right as an adamant,” referring to a diamond or lodestone. A ...

Quotes about nature There’s a reason nature has inspired scores of poems, songs, and beautiful words—it’s pretty darn ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now ...

Unlike hiking or snow boots that have been treated with a durable water-repellent finish, rain boots are made from fully waterproof materials like plastic or vulcanized rubber. They tend to lack ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

There are plenty of great quotes about dogs that celebrate the bond between us and our furry pals. While it can be tough to put that love into words, fortunately, some of history’s greatest ...

Since sleep was out of the question, I put on coffee, grabbed a legal pad and started making a list of everything I could think of with the word “love” in it: song titles, poems, quotations ...

From acoustic demo to an epic promo video, the history of ‘November Rain’ traces the creation of one of rock’s greatest ballads. You think “November Rain,” you think: a tiny white chapel ...